No more appointment of improper persons as judges – CJN

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, on Thursday said the era of appointing unfit and improper persons as judges had gone.

 

He said the National Judicial Council’s newly revised guidelines of appointment of judicial officers now in force provided for “a more comprehensive, robust and transparent method of appointment.”

 

Justuce Mohammed, who spoke at the swearing in of a new Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Amiru Sanusi, at the Supreme Court complex in Abuja, said the new guidelines would ensure “the emergence of only the best legal minds with high moral standards to serve as judges in our revered temples of justice.”

 

Sanusi, who hails from Funtia Katsina State was until his appointment as a Justice of the Supreme Court, the presiding Justice of the Enugu Division of the Court of Appeal